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Summer Reading for Young Readers

Posted in books, My favorite things, reviews, Uncategorized, tagged , on June 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

School’s out. How can you motivate your young reader to actually read? You know that reading is important. I taught elementary school for eight years, and it was always clear in the fall which kids had read over the summer and which hadn’t. Of course, there are lots of kids who just enjoy reading and [...]

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Make Someone’s Day for Under $5

Posted in books, Uncategorized, tagged , on May 11, 2012 | 7 Comments »

Conversation at my house on May 6: Me: So, guess how many of my books have sold this month? Daughter: 100? Me: (feeling a bit deflated) Well … no … actually, it’s 10! (which I had been feeling okay about) Another daughter: Wow. That’s pretty sad. This little vignette leads to today’s post. It’s tough [...]

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“I Love to Tell the Story” trivia – with giveaway

Posted in books, My favorite things, Uncategorized, tagged on January 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Congrats to Tracie and Nicki, who each scored 100%, and to Attic Girl who just missed one. Correct answers are: B A A D A D B D In case you hadn’t heard, I Love to Tell the Story: Growing Up Blessed and Baptist in Small Town Indiana is out, in Kindle (2.99) and paperback (9.35) [...]

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Interview with Author Susan Todd

Posted in books, Uncategorized, tagged on December 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »

One of the fun things about becoming a “real” author this year is the opportunity to mingle with other authors. They’re an interesting group, and one of them is Susan Todd. I’d like to introduce you to Susan and her work today. Susan, tell us a little about yourself. I have worn many hats over [...]

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Book Chat

Posted in books, reviews, Uncategorized, What's on Your Nightstand?, tagged , , , on December 27, 2011 | 9 Comments »

This month I’ve been reading … I began the month by scavenging “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” from my daughter’s readings from school. Just an aside here, but I find it a bit annoying that my book fees include purchasing each book the girls read in class during middle school (and with 3 girls within [...]

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“Documenting America” by David Todd

Posted in books, Uncategorized, tagged , on December 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Remember David Todd, who interviewed me at his place yesterday? David is that rarity, an engineer who enjoys writing. Today I’d like to introduce you to his latest book, “Documenting America.” Give us a one sentence summary of your book. Behind the history books are original sources, United States historical documents that are readily accessible, [...]

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“I Love to Tell the Story” Interview

Posted in books, Uncategorized, tagged , , on December 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Remember last summer, when I attended the Write to Publish Conference in Illinois? One of the best thing about the conference (in retrospect, maybe even more valuable than – gasp! – meeting with editors and agents) was meeting with fellow writers. One of those was David Todd. Dave has been nice enough to interview me [...]

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My Favorite Bible

Posted in books, reviews, Uncategorized on December 1, 2011 | 71 Comments »

No, I’m not talking about my favorite Bible today, but a Bible storybook for kids. One of my fondest memories of my girls being little is of them listening to, and later reading, kids’ Bibles. We have had several, and they’re dog-eared from use. A good thing! So, although my girls have passed the age [...]

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Book Chat

Posted in books, My favorite things, Uncategorized, What's on Your Nightstand?, tagged , , , on November 22, 2011 | 8 Comments »

This month, I’ve been reading … I finally got around to reading one of the books everyone is talking about, “Heaven is For Real,” in this case. In case you’ve been living under a rock, it’s the tale of a 3-year-old boy who has an emergency appendectomy and tells his parents of how he visited [...]

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Book Chat

Posted in books, My favorite things, reviews, Uncategorized, What's on Your Nightstand?, tagged , , , , on September 27, 2011 | 13 Comments »

Here’s what I’ve been reading this month: I am so excited to share with my online reading friends that my first book is out on Kindle. “Sophie, Pay Attention (Rhoda, You Too)!” is an early chapter book for kids 6-10. Think of it as a Christian version of a Junie B. Jones book. Sophie loves [...]

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